PI: Dr. Ioannis Zografopoulos

Ioannis Zografopoulos is an assistant professor in the Engineering Department of the College of Science and Mathematics at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Boston. He is the principal investigator (PI) of the Infrastructure Cybersecurity and Resilience Laboratory (ICARUS). He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in 2023. Prior, he graduated with B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in Computer, Communications, and Network Engineering, and an M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece, in 2014 and 2015, respectively.

His research interests include cyber-physical systems security, with an emphasis on embedded systems for industrial, distributed energy, and power grid applications.

He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics and the Chair of IEEE PES Task Force on Resilient and Secure Large-Scale Energy Internet Systems.

Furthermore, he is a member of IET, an IEEE and PES Senior Member and has served as a reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Access, IEEE SmartGridComm, IET Smart Grid, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, and other IEEE and ACM conferences and journals.

Kerd Topallaj

Kerd Topallaj (Student Member, IEEE) is currently a senior undergraduate student pursuing a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Boston, MA, USA. His research interests include real-time simulation of power systems. Upon graduation, he will begin his professional career in the industry as an Associate Engineer in Distribution Planning and Asset Management at National Grid. He has also passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam in Electrical & Computer Engineering and is pursuing Engineer-in-Training (EIT) certification following graduation. At ICARUS Lab, he worked on real-time simulation of power system models, and assessed the impact of cyberattacks on inverter-based resource microgrids. [Paper] [Poster]

Suraj Ramanathan

Suraj Ramanathan is a final-year electrical engineering student at UMass Boston and a recipient of the UMass Boston Transfer Student Scholarship. His academic and research interests center on power systems, combining theoretical study with real-time grid simulation. He gained field experience as a construction intern with Blattner Energy, serving as a field engineer at the Morris Ridge Solar project near Rochester, NY. After graduation, Suraj will join Eversource Energy as an Associate Engineer in Distribution System Planning. At ICARUS Lab, he worked on his senior design project on real-time microgrid simulation with hardware-in-the-loop cyberattack analysis. He also co-authored the paper Impact Assessment of Cyberattacks in Inverter-Based Microgrids accepted in the IEEE eGrid 2025 Workshop. [Paper] [Poster]

Colin Mckerrell

Elda Ramirez

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